October 3, 2007

Justice Thomas goes to the movies with his future wife, Virginia Bess Lamp, who is mainly amused that he's laughing so much. What movie is it?

Don't reveal the answer if you actually know it. Let commenters guess for a while. Here's a list of the top 100 movies of 1986 (by IMDB rating), and the movie is on the list. Make your selection and give reasons. The prize isn't for getting the answer right, but for making a guess/giving a reason that amuses me.

I'm going to go for "Little Shop of Horrors." He enjoyed hearing Levi Stubbs, lead singer of the Four Tops, singing from what must have been Thomas' id in the role of Audrey II, the plant.

Deep down, I'm sure there were lots of people Thomas wanted to be fed to monster tulips from outer space.

Seymour: Wait a minute, Audrey II, that's not a very nice thing to say! Audrey II: But it's true, isn't it? Seymour: No! I don't know anybody who deserves to get chopped up and fed to a hungry plant! Audrey II: Mmmmmm, sure you do!

Since I vaguely recall Justice Thomas suggesting he could have been a sports coach, I can't entirely rule out Wildcats (#73 -in which Goldie Hawn played a HS football coach).

Three Amigos (# 15) is another really good choice....but I can't really see Justice Thomas taking a date to see Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short. Same with Ferris Bueller (# 5).

Plus, it has to be a movie that is prone to that schism: one person likes it, the other does not. Mindful of that criteria, I have to believe the movie was one of my all-time favorites: Big Trouble in Little China (# 9).

I think Lo Pan said it best:You were not brought upon this world to "get it!"

Jumpin' Jack Flash, which happens to be on my own list of top ten favorites. When Whoopie goes to the door with that giant toothbrush, I cracked up. And the scene of her in that phone booth is priceless.

I'm going to say that it's Blue Velvet. Outside the fact that I actually liked the movie. I can see Thomas laughing his ass off simply because watching Dennis Hopper personify aspects of his life and the people who have been in it and seeing the similarities in that character makes him laugh.

I know I do from time to time whenever I see it. I can think of a few people that are similar to that character and it will get a good chuckle out of me.

...and then there's "Pretty In Pink" which I can't watch with this tubby muthafucker any more, because everytime we get to the part where the red head hooks up with her dream guy, he starts sobbin' like a little eight-year-old with a skinned knee and shit. And nothing is worse then watching a fat man weep.